Disaster Response Australia Project #44320

Disaster Relief and Recovery

by Australian Red Cross Society

Project Report | Dec 1, 2023
With Your Support We Can Be There

By Clare | Partnerships Team

You can help our teams to be ready this summer.

The Bureau of Meteorology is warning of a hot and dry summer, with fires, heatwaves and drought expected. Our emergency response teams have already been activated after fires hit Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland.

With your support, we can be there when disaster impacted communities need us most. We provide psychosocial support, help in evacuation centres and ensure people have the emotional and practical support they need to cope and recover.

Our climate is changing. Disasters are becoming more frequent and intense. That’s why it’s so important we are ready.

Right now

Our teams are on the ground supporting people impacted by fires across the country.

Australian Red Cross continues to work in evacuation and recovery centres across Queensland and Western Australia.
Our volunteers are providing psychosocial support to people in Evacuation Centres and via personal support, information, and referrals in community recovery hubs.
We are working hard to register and reunite loved ones through our Register.Find.Reunite. service.
Australian Red Cross has commenced planning for the long and challenging Recovery journey that many community members are now facing.

Last year, someone in Australia needed our help every 90 seconds.Here’s what our donors made possible:

324,000+

people supported before, during and after disasters

1,639

staff helped and supported people across 33 emergency activations

4 million+

people accessed information from preparedness campaigns

Thanks to your support, we can be there.

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Aug 3, 2023
Great things happen because you care.

By Clare | Partnerships Team

Thank you from us to you.Sometimes, the stories that aren’t told are the ones the world needs to hear most – like the stories of people helping people. Because without the helpers like you, life would be much harder for so many.

You let people know someone cared. And you made sure they didn’t have to face the hardest days of their life alone. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for your generosity and everything you have done to help this past year.

Your generosity has helped prevent suffering. It protected people's dignity, ensured they felt stronger, and supported to start again. The world might not see the helpers behind the headlines, but we do. And we see you.

Thanks to supporters like you, we made a difference in someone’s life every 90 seconds in Australia last year. Because of our generous supporters, we could help 300,000+ people before, during and after disasters and emergencies

A year of flooding comes to the Top End

“That first Friday after the evacuations began, I was exhausted. But I remember thinking, ‘There are 528 people sleeping in beds in the centre tonight. They are safe. We did that, and it’s pretty special,’” says Annette Plowman, our Emergency Services Manager for the Northern Territory.

Floods have dominated the headlines in Australia for more than a year. In February, they hit the NT's Big Rivers region, and hundreds of people in three First Nations communities – Daguragu, Kalkarindji and Pigeon Hole – had to be airlifted to safety.

Red Cross teams were waiting to welcome them at an evacuation centre near Darwin. “Our support is all about that human connection, sitting and listening to people. We helped comfort and reassure people, working with them to figure out what they needed.”

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Apr 4, 2023
Disaster Relief and Recovery

By Clare Hedger | Partnerships Team

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